The NSA Searches Ten Times as Much of the Internet as It Said It Does

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3. I made this claculation recently, but retracted my post about it

I wrote a whole thing a few days back about this seeming math error. I cam up with 4 parts in 100,000 also, not 4 parts in a million, but upon further examination I concluded that that I was making an error in multiplying the numbers directly and lost track of the fact that it is percentages which came into play in some odd way.

I don't recall exactly what went on, but I came to believe that the NSA calculation was correct, but phrased baddly, and deleted my objection.

At some point in the calculation, because some number was a percent it meant that when multiplying, the number itself had to first be divided by 100, creating the discrepency.

Or something.

It will be interesting to see if the Atlantic fell into the same trap, or whether I was right the first time and talked myself out of it.

(I am very much not an NSA apologist, but math is math so it's a narrow question)